May 1996

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Editor's Note

• Negative Returns

  Nick Gillespie

  Attack ads reflect a diverse society.

• Code Blue

  Rick Henderson

  How to save us from the cybercops

• Standing Pat

  Virginia Postrel

  Buchananism's establishment allies

Letters

• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Guilt-Free Gas Guzzling

  Brian Doherty

  Cars probably pay their own way, and then some.

• Power Struggle

  Ed Carson

  Sparks fly in electricity deregulation debate.

• Less Crime, More Punishment

  Nick Gillespie

  A Texas study says crime falls as prisons go up.

• Missing Links

  Nick Gillespie

  Does TV violence cause real-world mayhem?

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Rick Henderson

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Columns

• Dirty Water

  Michael Fumento

  Will the United States repeat Peru's chlorine folly?

• Free Traitors

  Thomas W. Hazlett

  Pat Buchanan's downsizing of America

• No Trade, No Gain

  John Nye

  Opposing trade means opposing innovation.

Features

• Selling Air Pollution

  Brian Doherty

  The politics go in before the market goes on.

• Property Frights

  Ed Carson

  Why property rights initiatives are losing at the polls

• Evolutionary Ecology

  Lynn Scarlett

  A new environmental vision

• Smoke Alarm

  Jacob Sullum

  This weed will make you stupid, unemployable, and lethargic. Now it's pot. It used to be tobacco.

• Birth of an Entitlement

  Carolyn Weaver

  Learning from the origins of Social Security

Book Reviews

• Color Blind

  David E. Bernstein

• Orphan Family Values

  Gwen J. Broude

• Migration Patterns

  John J. Miller

• Middle Management

  Rick Henderson